Here, in the land of the Tea Party, the fake Tea Party, the imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, the convicted congressman's wife, the other oil spill, and the Detroit Lions, life was good until the telephone rang.
It was an anonymous political call and the gist of it was this: Rick Snyder is a dirty low-down liar who claims to have succeeded billiantly as the leader of Gateway Computers while in fact he ran the company into the ground and cost stockholders a fortune.
For those so unfortunate that they don't live in Michigan, Snyder is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. A venture capitalist, he served as president and chief operating officer of Gateway from January 1996 to August 1997, a brief period when Gateway's trajectory was pretty well set. A short time later, Snyder returned to Ann Arbor to found Avalon Investments Inc., a venture-capital company with a $100 million fund, along with the co-founder of Gateway, Ted Waitt.
Now, Snyder apparently is leading a three-candidate race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, which will be decided in a primary on Tuesday. An Associated Press poll shows Snyder with 26 percent, while Attorney General Mike Cox has 24 percent and Rep. Pete Hoekstra has 23 percent. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard was backed by 10 percent, while state Sen. Tom George had 1 percent and 14 percent were undecided.
Close enough, in other words, to invite a strongly delivered lie that, notwithstanding his business success, Snyder was a bad manager who destroyed the once-high-flying Gateway.
I don't have a dog in this race. I'm just happy that, so far is is known, there aren't any felons running for governor.
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